to hang; to suspend; to lower; to reduce; to demote; to move back
to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into
infancy; childhood; tender age
hour; o'clock; (specified) time; when ...; during ...
laying the groundwork; behind-the-scenes maneuvering; consensus-building process; digging around the roots of a tree (before transplanting)
puppet; marionette; puppeteer; (arch.) prostitute
in order to do; for the purpose of doing
education; schooling; training; culture; cultivation; education
charge; duty; person in charge; connection; linking
willful; wilful; selfish; carefree; do-as-you-please; freewheeling
dissipation; prodigality; debauchery
piece; fragment; one (object)
genius; prodigy; natural gift
self-education; self-instruction; self-study
to be convinced (that); to be under the impression (that); to make up one's mind; to set one's heart on; to be obsessed (with a thought, idea, etc.); to think about obsessively
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
eastern direction; the Orient; eastern fighter in a match (e.g. sumo wrestling)
fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together); relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; family ties; affinity; opportunity
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
law; act; method; mood; dharma; law
to study (in depth); to learn; to take lessons in
combat; battle; action; active service; actual fighting
some; several; many; how many; how much; very
to indulge in; to give oneself up to; to be obsessed by; to be engrossed in; to be lost in; to be absorbed in
to drive to death (e.g. by suicide); to cause to die
our country; our land; one's own country
20 years old; (arch.) twenty
to make up for; to compensate for; to indemnify; to recompense; to redeem (e.g. a fault); to atone for
to be factually incorrect; to differ from the actual facts; to not be the case
to press down; to hold down; to pin down; to suppress (feelings, disorder, opposition, etc.); to repress
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
foreign country; other country; another province; strange land; alien land
leaving behind; desertion; abandonment
study; scholarship; learning; discipline; branch of learning; (a) science
to accompany; to follow; to keep up with
degeneration; decadence; deterioration; laxness; corruption
root; source; origin; cause
youngster; neophyte; greenhorn
to fling off; to throw off; to cast aside; to abandon; to throw to the winds
to bark; to howl; to howl (e.g. of the wind); to roar; to yell; to cry